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the present promising conditions might be ascribed, one Oriental 

 said: "Before too much pilau, this time wash wash, all time 

 wash. Medicine too much money. Maybe by and by." An 

 effort was made to impress these thrifty hog raisers with the 

 necessity of reporting without delay any outbreak of disease, 

 that we would be glad to help them and that we could help them 

 now. Also they were reminded of what happened before when 

 they succeeded in keeping the outbreak secret and every last hog 

 in the district died. The difference between glanders and hog 

 cholera was explained — a considerable number of horses and 

 mules having been destroyed in the Moiliili district some years 

 ago — and the fact that a hog with cholera could be treated and 

 often saved, wliereas a horse with glanders was incurable and 

 had to be destroyed, was emphasized. 



In the Kapahulu district things do not look quite so promising. 

 There is in several cases a lack of care and attention, hogs, dogs 

 and poultry all run together and as a rule only the boar is kept 

 confined. As a consequence a number of pigs die. Serum is 

 used in some places, more or less regularly, and in others not at 

 all. This district illustrates better than any other the benefits 

 of care and sanitation. Where these factors are in evidence the 

 pigs are doing well, serum or no serum, but where they are lack- 

 ing or entirely absent the litters are small and unthrifty and a 

 number die. This does not mean that the serum is of no value, 

 but emphasizes the value of hygiene and sanitation. 



In regard to Mr. Pond's place. Dr. Case informs me that con- 

 ditions are greatly improved and that no losses of any conse- 

 quence have occurred recently. As intense swill feeding is prac- 

 ticed successfully both here and on the Mainland, and as Mr. 

 Pond has had an opportunity to familiarize himself with the man- 

 ner in which it is done on some of the largest hog establishments 

 in California and other places, no doubt in the near future he 

 will be able to demonstrate just how the most benefit can be 

 obtained from this valuable but cheap hog feed. I should have 

 liked very much to look into the subject myself but in the first 

 place it is a question of animal husbandry to be dealt with by 

 federal or territorial experiment stations, and in the second place 

 travelling is very expensive in California and I was without 

 funds for the purpose. 



SORE HEAD, ROUP OR CHICKEN POX. 



This disease familiar to every poultry raiser in the Territory, 

 has for years been held responsible for the lack of interest taken 

 in the egg and poultry business here. While it must be admitted 

 that the disease, once it gains entrance into the yards and runs 

 of a successful chicken farmer, is likely to cause him some loss 

 and a great deal of inconvenience, if he makes an earnest effort 

 at curing the affected birds and prevent the healthy ones from 



